As the clock ticks forward and the daylight hours dwindle I don't spend as much time outside
as in the nicer months. I get my chores done and retire to the homestead.
During the past couple weeks, I have been able to grab some time to sit and check out the offerings
on the TV. We dumped the regular cable and use Hulu, Amazon Prime, Netflix etc.
The MSM and regular TV shows I can't stand so those are a no go. I don't even bother
with the bread and circus of sporting events. Nope , none, nada.
Anyway, before someone gets their panties in a wad because I am going to mention Netflix,
I get it. But, at some point, it's mindless entertainment, and I'm ok with that on a limited basis.
One show, not on my list to share was the 2020 ( I think) Larry the Cable Guy special. I had
some good therapy from the laughter I enjoyed.
Anyway, back to the shows that I really got lost in.
Again, these were documentaries that can be filmed and massaged to fit the narrative of the producers,
directors, investors, editors etc. If watched with an open, aware mind frame , they were definitely
eye-opening and worth the time. IMHO. YMMV. WYSIWYG.
First up was Meltdown: Three Mile Island. I was young back then and didn't realize how close we came to disaster. Four Episodes.
Second up was Painkiller, about the pharmaceutical family that created Oxycontin and the devastation the addiction of the drug left on this country. Six episodes.
Finally, last night, was Downfall, The Case Against Boeing. This one exposed the issues surrounding the MAX 737 crashes and investigations.
As I was watching this documentary I became aware that this one story can be expanded to include the direction of where this country is going. The almighty dollar, corporate greed, lies, omission of critical information, etc.
If you get a chance to catch any of these or if you have watched them, please comment your thoughts.
Yes, I know it's Netflix and yes I am aware that they have agendas are being pushed both in-your-face and subliminally on a constant basis. They aren't going to go out of business if I don't watch a few shows. I do boycott most of the idiotic actors and musicians that don't just shut up and think I need their opinions on politics and leftist ideals.
Enjoy your Sunday, the salt mine calls...
Try the fall of Minneapolis
ReplyDeleteIndeed, highly recommended. It dropped just before Chauvin was knifed.
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DeleteLarry the Cable guy is a faker. He is not Southern and he doesnt really talk like that
ReplyDeleteHe is from rural Nebraska... my brother-in-law from the same area speaks exactly the same way.
DeleteThank you sir.
ReplyDeleteI enjoy a Pepsi from time to time, like one or two a month but my boycotting of them totally isn't hurting them one bit. They lose more than that in damages on one pallet.
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New TV is probably 3-4 years old. Only on about 10-12 hours total time maybe? We were encouraged to sign up for streaming service. First show, 'Only murder in the building', had way too many ads, was just about vomit inducing. Pathetic, immature, very low intellect. Likely written by slow kids not yet through puberty. Looks like TV only going to get another few hours per year.
ReplyDeleteHaven't watched TV or any other entertainment media in 17 years.
ReplyDeleteNo sports, no movies except rewatching the ones I collected on DVD, and .... best part of all...NO ADVERTISING!!!
We cut the cable years ago and have gone through a variety of devices and settled happily on the Fire-TV stick, plus some subscriptions. Our biggest issue is that there are so many streaming networks, I guess you'd say, that we often forget which show is on which network. But, here are two fiction shows we have gotten to like:
ReplyDelete- Transplant. A combat trauma doctor fights the Assad regime during the Syrian war and escapes to Toronto where he ends up working in a major trauma hospital. Very engaging. The main character is, himself, rather traumatized by his experiences but because of his background he can pull off some amazing surgeries. Warning, the surgery scenes can be graphic.
- Sea Patrol. The HMAS Hammersley patrols the seas around Australia, and you learn a lot about the issues of piracy, human cargo, smuggling, drug running, terrorism, and the like, all with those charming accents. Can be a bit traumatic, too.
Any recommendations for Prime?
ReplyDeleteClarkson's Farm and Formula 1.
DeleteI haven't watched any "western" TV since the new seasons after the scamdemic started. I watched 1 episode of a show I'd liked well enough before all that and the non-nonsense police detective who was at the top of her game and took no prisoners was suddently whining about needing to fight systemic racism and that was the last sucker-punch for me.
ReplyDeleteI'd already been mostly watching Indian films for my preferred choice while streaming stuff. I just added in Korean, Japanese, Filipino, Taiwanese, Thai, and Singaporean TV to replace what little tv I had been watching. My wife's a huge Korea-phile so we've gravitated more to the "kdramas" as Korean tv is collectively known (despite the variety of genres contained within that umbrella) than anything and we've been *much* happier with what we've seen from Asia than from the West for the past several years.
Oxycontin is very mildly addictive. There is no one on earth who became addicted to oxycontin who used it as prescribed. As for the addicts who use it they crush it and consume large amounts of it in various ways to satisfy their addiction. Everything we think we know about oxycontin was made up by lawyers so they could sue for billions. Nothing more, nothing less.
ReplyDeleteMy lady and I watch Paramount plus, not to expensive. But all the Blue Bloods seasons are on it, no commercials. Tubi has a lot and seems to interject less commercial time than FreeVee or Pluto.
ReplyDeleteI use Brave for TUBI, it blinks to black for a millisecond as the commercial is cut before it can start.
DeleteThe Sack(of shit)lers are just another billionaire piece of shit family of the big pharma industry
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I recall reading about the Boeing 737 Max (maximum off up, that is) when it was first being investigated, mainly on ZH as I recall . . . . dopes hired H1B Visa "engineers" from a certain asian country, where they have a lot of service call centers for tech companies. This was a significant root cause behind the 737 Max screw up. I worked in asia for some time, with "engineers" edumacated at their institutions of higher learning. Most were book smart and could apparently pass a test to gragidate but did not know what end of a screwdriver to pick up. My degree is in chemical engineering and one day when I was HMFIC of a pharmaceutical plant construction project in one of these asian countries, building a place to eliminate good-paying jobs for old white guys in the USA and Europe (I was naive at the time and did not realize what was going on until years later) - the lead HVAC engineer called me on a Saturday morning all in a panic saying the blower motor on the main air handler, imported from the USA, WAS NO GOOD ON START UP !!! On arrival at the plant an hour later, I review with this turkey what had been done - he decided to try to gain points he would go in on Saturday with a couple of his underlings when no one else was there, and start the unit up to show off on Monday morning "Lookeee see what I done did!, all my myself!!!" They had the master electrician there to try to help troubleshoot - this guy knew a thing or two from the school of hard knocks but they could not figure out why when they hit the start button on this air handler, a 200 HP blower motor as I recall, the motor started but A - it drew about 20% more than the full load amp rating stamped on the side of the unit, and the system did not move any air. AT ALL. I asked "did anyone go on the roof to see if the air intakes were clear?". Said HVAC genius sent two underlings up to the roof. They came down and guess what? They had found the air intakes blocked.... . . . now even though my degree was mainly in chemical stuff I remembered that when a 3 phase motor is powered and there is no load, IT PULLS TOO MUCH CURRENT. Affinity laws I think they are called but I do not recall why motors behave like that, probably something to do with induction in the windings? Anyway disaster was averted, the plant proceeded to start up ahead of schedule. . . . . True story, bro.
ReplyDeleteBoeing 737 Max problems and H1B visa "engineers". Draw your own conclusions.
ReplyDeleteThe basic problem wasn't the engineers, but that management restricted the design of the MAX so they could get FAA approval on the cheap - instead of designing a new airplane to fit modern fanjets with huge fans and going through the full approval process, they kludged the huge engines into the old design, never mind the weight imbalance this caused. Then in the follow-up, they had salesmen making engineering decisions -
Delete(1) Save a few bucks on the cockpit display for the angle of attack sensors, delaying the pilot's recognition that one sensor was broken, and it was that one that the software believed.
(2) Change the software to make it handle like the older 737's. Sell it as not requiring retraining, since it normally handled like the old, well-balance airplane - but when the broken sensor drove the software insane, the pilot wasn't trained to shut down the software and fly that unbalanced mess manually.
The only problem with the engineers was that none of them was ethically dedicated enough to end their career by resigning and notifying the FAA and the press that flying the 737MAX with only the recommended training was hazardous.
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ReplyDeleteThe Expanse, although it appears to be dead. Got all 3 DvDs of the series.
DeleteSamsung channel, Pluto, Roku and especially Tubi have al kinds of great content. Some of it overlaps, but Tubi is king with classic movies, and they have more Christian-oriented stuff than any of the others. FREE with commercials.
ReplyDeleteRemember when we had broadcast TV like that? Good time to take a bathroom break or grab a brewski or whatever. Plus you can pause them if you need more time.
Samsung has a lot of documentaries & nature shows & is free with a Samsung television. Probably saved thousands by now just paying for an internet connection; to hell with crappy network do-overs of classic shows from the 60's & 70's on Speculum, watch the originals!
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The Frankenstein Chronicles with Sean Bean.
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